3. System, Structure, and Units

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. 1. Overview 1
5. I. Rethinking System and Structure
6. 2. Waltz, His Critics, and the Prospects for a Structural Realism 20
7. 3. System, Structure, and Units 29
8. 4. Beyond Neorealism: Interaction Capacity 66
9. II. Rethinking System Continuity and Transformation
10. 5. Structural Realism and World History 82
11. 6. Structural Realism and the Agent-Structure Debate 102
12. 7. Agency and Competing Theories of the State 114
13. 8. The Structure and Logic of Anarchy 132
14. 9. Continuity and Transformation in the International System 155
15. III. Rethinking the Methodology of Realism
16. 10. Analogy, Theory and Testing 170
17. 11. Analogy or Metaphor? 200
18. 12. Vertical Sectors and Disaggregated Power 216
19. 13. Summary and Conclusions 233
20. References 247
21. Index 259